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The author is deeply grateful to the editor of Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science for granting permission to reprint from the author s article (N3) Figs. 1 to 5 and Tables 1 and 2, and to freely adapt from the text. The author is extremely grateful to Ms. Carol Perello for her painstaking and excellent secretarial support and to Dr. Herbert Spiegel for the opportunity provided to write this article. 

Winbauer AN, Pingree SS, and Nuttall KL (1999) Evaluating serum alpba-tocopherol (vitamin E) in terms of a lipid ratio. Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science 29, 185-91. 

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Sunderman, Jr., F.W., Marzouk, A., Crisostomo, M.C. and Weatherby, D.R. (1985). Electrothermal atomic absorption spectrophotometry of nickel in tissue homogenates. Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science, 15, 299-307. 

The Clinical and Laboratory Science Institnte (CLSI) approach to susceptibility testing in aquaculture... 

For example, in the clinical and biological sciences area, see Sigma Chemical Co.. 3050 Spruce St., St. Louis, MO 63103, or Bio-Rad Laboratories, 1000 Alfred Nobel Dr., Hercules, CA 94547. 

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This volume marks the first issue of a biannual publication for the Advances in Clinical Chemistry series. Starting this year, the series will be published twice a year to keep the readership abreast of the rapid changes and latest developments in clinical chemistry, clinical laboratory science, and laboratory diagnostics. 

I hope the readership will enjoy the first volume of 2005 and actively use it. As always, I warmly welcome comments and solicit participation in keeping subsequent volumes of the Advances in Clinical Chemistry series in the forefront of clinical laboratory sciences. 

Dr. Randolph earned a bachelor of science degree in chemistry and biology from Wayland College in Texas. He also holds a Ph.D. in experimental pathology from the Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was introduced to his scientific career in clinical laboratory science at the Armed Forces Academy of Health Sciences, San Antonio, Texas during a 4-year tour of duty in the U.S. Army between 1972 and 1976. 

Guder, W.G. and Wahlefeld, A.W. (1983) Specimens and samples in clinical laboratory Sciences. In Methods of Enzymatic Analysis (ed. Bergmeyer, H.U.), 3rd edn. Verlag Chemie, Weinheim. 

IUPAC, IFCC (2002) Properties and units in the clinical laboratory sciences. Database accessed on http //dior.imt. liu.se/cnpu/... 

Hemmila, I. and Mukkala, V.-M. (2001) Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory Sciences, 38, 441-519. 

Seymour I. Schlager (15), Laboratory of Immunobiology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20205 Morton B. Sigel (23), Lutcher Brown Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La Jolla, California 92037 Kendall O. Smith (27), Department of Microbiology, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas 78284... 

Rigg JC, Brown SS, Dybkaer R, Olesen H eds. The Silver Book Compendium of terminology and nomenclature of properties in clinical laboratory sciences (recommendations 1995). London Blackwell Science, 1995. 

We greatly appreciate the opportunity provided to us by Elsevier to participate in the preparation of the fourth edition of this textbook. It has been an exciting, challenging, and educational experience. We have endeavored to ensure that this edition wfil live up to the reputation and success of its distinguished predecessors. We have enjoyed working with the team of dedicated authors who have spent countless hours preparing comprehensive chapters that are authoritative and timely. We believe that they have produced a textbook that is reflective of the diverse, technical, and practical nature of the current practice of clinical laboratory science and medicine. 

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